Show OREGON sumpter american J L van stone superintendent of the phoenix mine spent a day in this city and reported that work on the phoenix was progressing quite satisfactorily facto rily he returned to the mine wednesday via whitney grants pass journal F H stall who lately bonded the red bean mine for chicago parties is the busiest man in these parts one night he is at medford next day at wolf creek the following day at glendale and so on he keeps moving all the time sumpter kumpt e r american joseph griffin manager of the big creek drift placers returned from the property this week and says that work there is in progress as usual the drift on the bedrock of the ancient channel is being driven from the shaft already sunk the gravel pulled up the inclined bottom to the shaft and there hoisted by horsepower sumpter miner the ruble elevator installed at the pine creek placers owned by the killen warner stewart company after the cleanup clean up last fall is in full operation and is doing most celent ex work A night force has been put on and double shifts are now being worked operations are in full blast and lots of ground is being moved baker city herald daniel kelly and samuel folt owning the silver crown mine on rock creek have received a bronze medal from the south carolina interstate and west indian exposition held at charleston 1901 2 the honor was conferred upon the owners for the best display of silver ore whick which was exhibited in competition with reek from the famed silver producing sections of the union baker city herald manager M 0 koester kaester Kc ester of the well known buckeye mine is rapidly straightening out matters in advance of the beginning of extensive opera eions at the property which will be soon A three compartment shaft is to be sunk and from this time henceforth the promising mine will be worked on a systematical basis the county road running from north powder Is nearing completion this will give the buckeye a distance of but two miles and a half from the railroad tile the vein there is an immense one and prominent experts predict that the buckeye and its camp will be one of the best propositions in eastern oregon |